[Tutor] Help :c

brayan torres torresbrayan70 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 11:51:47 EST 2021


Greetings:

I’m working on exercises in Python, I'm a beginner. I have a problem with
this exercise:
Book Titles

You have been asked to make a special book categorization program, which
assigns each book a special code based on its title.
The code is equal to the first letter of the book, followed by the number
of characters in the title.
For example, for the book "Harry Potter", the code would be: H12, as it
contains 12 characters (including the space).

You are provided a books.txt file, which includes the book titles, each one
written on a separate line.
Read the title one by one and output the code for each book on a separate
line.

For example, if the books.txt file contains:
Some book
Another book

Your program should output:
S9
A12
Recall the readlines() method, which returns a list containing the lines of
the file.
Also, remember that all lines, except the last one, contain a \n at the
end, which should not be included in the character count.

I understand what I should do but my output is not the same as (S9 or
A12)..

This is my code…
file = open("/usercode/files/books.txt", "r")

for i in file.readlines():
   print(i[0])
   print(len(i))

file.close()

my output is:
H
13
T
17
P
20
G
18


Thank you for your help.
Brian


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